Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , to use a definition of the American , Stanley Ellin , one of the writers to have given us short stories to equal any that have been written since crime and the short story met ( read his The Speciality of the House ) is any story so long as it deals with " that streak of wickedness in human nature " . |
| 2 | I do n't care if it 's a rubbish route so long as it 's got an E-number . |
| 3 | Clearly , this must be the case so long as it remains the only easily available platform for interactive multimedia . |
| 4 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 5 | ( 4 ) A covenant by the lessee for the repair of the premises is of no effect so far as it relates to the matters mentioned in subsection ( l ) ( a ) to ( c ) , except so far as it imposes on the lessee any of the requirements mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) ( a ) or ( c ) . |
| 6 | The principle of interchangeable parts did not catch on in British industry as fast as it did in the American gun industry ; Colt 's revolvers were the great examples of what became known as the American system of manufacture . |
| 7 | She crouched at the firebox , shooting the wood into its mouth as quickly as it came , then cowered back from the sudden heat as the blaze was roused again . |
| 8 | To quote that part of this Act so far as it affects a member of a local authority may be useful . |
| 9 | This argument seems to me sound so far as it goes , but it does not go very far . |
| 10 | because the verderers … and … the Steward of the Forest made no mention in their rolls of the name of the said page , nor of his delivery , nor of his escape , and the business of the King so far as it relates to the said boy is entirely undone , therefore they are in mercy . |
| 11 | The sunflower does not learn by experience to turn its head more effectively as it matures , or not to turn at all if it is repeatedly electrically shocked every time it does so . |
| 12 | Darwin 's concept of evolution may hold water as far as it goes , but without the inclusion of an omnipotent ‘ Master Mind ’ , working from outside to plan the possibility of purposeful development , it makes no sense to me at all . |
| 13 | To counter this , water is secreted into a contractile vacuole as fast as it enters the amoeba . |
| 14 | ‘ Cheap electricity 's the answer to the first — sod the cost to the environment so long as it keeps down the cost to the consumer . |
| 15 | it is a good theory so far as it goes . |
| 16 | An old potter regretted that machinery did not transform his trade as early as it did that of cotton . |
| 17 | But his words had deflated Robbie 's anger as suddenly as it had blown up . |
| 18 | Writing a doctorate on the British response to the church conflict in Nazi Germany , I was well aware that Dietrich Bonhoeffer had refused to grant that the established national Protestant Church was in fact a Christian church so long as it refused to ordain people who were racially Jewish . |
| 19 | Newcastle 's death in 1768 merely removed the most accomplished practitioner of the system ; the word ‘ party ’ only had political significance as far as it related to the following of great magnates . |
| 20 | And what I want to do today is to talk about Totem and Taboo rather more as it looks back , than as it looks forward , and not just to , to the past in Freud , but to the past in other respects , as you will see . |
| 21 | By and large , Parliament and the judiciary have taken the view that free speech is a very good thing so long as it does not cause trouble . |
| 22 | Erm we 've we 've actually developed social housing really rather as it 's been an opportunity we 've grabbed it and we 've done it , you know , some of it 's been very very good an and nobody 's knocking that but I think it is time that we took stock and actually had a a proper policy and a proper strategy on sa on social housing . |
| 23 | His prong began to thrust in and out of her like a greased piston , and she found it slipped up her arse as often as it penetrated her vagina . |
| 24 | Furthermore , it appears that electronic exchanges have wider bid-ask spreads , which might be a reflection of inadequate liquidity due to the lack of locals ( although there seems to be no inherent reason why individuals trading on their own account could not use an electronic system so long as it enables the scalping and other arbitrage trading practices typically carried out by locals ) . |
| 25 | It has widespread support in the House as far as it goes , but missing is legislation to protect against victimisation . |